Coin-wrapper.



C. SILBERSTEIN.

COIN WRAPPER.

APPLICATION EILED APR. 1. 1914. RENEWED SEPT. 1, 1915.

1,155,624. Patented 001. 5,1915.

IN VEN TOR, Cari Sallberstealn @Mz k z mw; A. 0/14,,4 f @Q/Q ATTORNEY CARL SILBERSTEIN, OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.

Colli -WRAPPER.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Get. 5, 1915.

Application filed April 1, 1914 Serial No. 828,741. Renewed September 1, 1915. Serial No. 48,577.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL SILBERSTEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Berkeley, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Coin-Wrappers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide means for rapidly and conveniently inclosing in a package a pile of coins of equal value, said means being so constructed that it will indicate whether or notthe correct number of coins have been so inclosed,

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a broken plan View of my improved wrapper Fig; 2 is a perspective View of the same filled withcoins and partly folded to form a package; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the completed package.

Referring to the drawing,'n1y improved wrapper comprises a substantially rectangular sheet 1 of paper one end 2 of which is folded over a narrow rectangular strip 3 of thin brass or other suitable metal. Said strip 5 is formed at its ends with extensions 4, which in form are almost complete circles, being connected to the main portion of the strip by narrow necks5, and the sheet 1 and folded-over portion 2 of the paper are formed with similar extensions 7, 8, respectively underlyingand overlying the circular extensions 4. Thestrips 2 and 3 are secured by any suitable adhesive to the paper 1,-an d the extensions 4:, 7 and 8 aresimilarly secured by adhesive to one another.

To use the wrapper the extensions are first bent up so as to stand vertically above the wrapper and strips 2, 3, being then substantially in line with the edges of the narrow end of the wrapper projecting a short distance beyond the necks 5. The narrow ex tending end of the wrapper is then bent into a cylindrical form, so that its ends lie closely in contact with the circular edges of the extensions. This portion of the wrapper then forms a cylindrical receptacle closed at the ends andpartly closed on one side and open at the top and on the other side. The coins are now inserted in said receptacle in a horizontally extending series. and it may be atonce determined by the closeness of the fit of said coins in said receptacle, whether the proper number of coins have been inserted,' as for instance, twenty or forty nickels, ten

or twenty dimes, and so on. When the re ceptacle is properly filled with coins, the receptacle and the coins therewithin are rolled toward the other end of the wrapper, and the ends of the wrapper are then folded in over the extensions or ends of the receptacle, as is usual in forming coin packages.

The novelty and utility of the device consist in the provision of the thin metal strip 3 attached to the sheet of paper. This metal is sufficiently pliable so that it can be easily bent or curved into a cylindrical form to form a side of the receptacle and its ends can be readily bent up to form the ends of the receptacle, and yet suliiciently stiif that said side and ends firmly retain their positions while the receptacle is being filled with coins. There is thus provided a receptacle of invariable size and form for receiving the coins, thus insuring that the proper number of coins are placed in the receptacle when filling it, and greatly facilitating the operation that'it has been proposed to use a strip of metal as a bond for binding the coins in the wrapper. Such use I do not claim. I am also aware that it has been proposed to form a receptacle the ends of which are made of wood. The objection to this form of wrapper is that the wrappers cannot be laid fiat when opened out, and cannot be stacked up in a small compass.

I claim 1. A coin wrapper comprising a sheet of paper reduced in width at one end, a strip of thin sheet material of greater strength than the paper extending transversely across the paper at said end. said paper being folded over said strip, adhesive securing said strip and folded portion to the sheet of paper, said strip having at each end substantially circular extensions, and the paper and folded portion having similar extensions registering with the extensions of the strip, and adhesive securing said paper, strip and folded portions, as likewise the extensions, to one another.

2. A coin wrapper comprising a sheet of paper one terminal portion of which is sheet material of greater strength than the testimonvwhereof I have herennto set paper extending across said terminal p0rmy hand in the presence of two subscribing tion of thepaper and having approximately Witnesses. V

circular portions exactly overlying the cir- SILBERSTEIN cular portions of the paper and adhesive Witnesses:

securing said strip to the paper and the cir- FRANCIS M. WRIGHT, cular portions to one another.

D. B. RICHARDS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patent Washington, D. 0. 

